Posted on 12/08/2013 9:20:27 PM PST by Eleutheria5
Anti-Israel musician Roger Waters is at it again.
The former member of Pink Floyd, who has previously faced criticism for virulently anti-Israel statements and for using anti-Israel and anti-Jewish imagery in his shows, has compared Israel to Nazi Germany. The comments were made in an interview Waters gave Saturday to Frank Barat of the CounterPunch magazine.
Waters was asked what he would tell artists who say that culture should not be boycotted and who choose to perform in Israel, to which he replied, “The situation in Israel/Palestine, with the occupation, the ethnic cleansing and the systematic racist apartheid Israeli regime is unacceptable.”
“So for an artist to go and play in a country that occupies other people’s land and oppresses them the way Israel does, is plain wrong,” stated Waters. “They should say no. I would not have played for the Vichy government in occupied France in the Second World War, I would not have played in Berlin either during this time. Many people did, back in the day. There were many people that pretended that the oppression of the Jews was not going on. From 1933 until 1946. So this is not a new scenario. Except that this time it’s the Palestinian people being murdered.”
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Roger who?
Waters is a narcissistic pig and the reason he’s out of Pink Floyd. David Gilmour is far more talented and the concerts and albums (CDs or whatever they’re called now) prove that out.
If the Israelis really were Nazis, they’d control everything from Morocco to Pakistan and the last Palestinian would have gone up the chimney a long time ago.
Well, there we are. Artists of so-so ability find a cause, and then pretend that those that dislike them are really mad at their cause.
“Syd Barrett was the sane one.”
He was the walrus....coo coo ca choo
"The situation in Israel/Palestine, with the occupation, the ethnic cleansing and the systematic racist apartheid Israeli regime is unacceptable. So for an artist to go and play in a country that occupies other people's land and oppresses them the way Israel does, is plain wrong... There were many people that pretended that the oppression of the Jews was not going on. From 1933 until 1946. So this is not a new scenario. Except that this time it's the Palestinian people being murdered."Arab squatters on Israel's land are being murdered by Hamas and the PA.
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